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central meridian
An imaginary line bisecting the apparent disk of a planet or the Sun and joining the poles of rotation. The passage of a surface feature across the central meridian, due to the axial rotation of a planet, is known as a central meridian transit. The timing of central meridian transits is an important means of determining the planetographic longitudes of planetary surface features.
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